Fürstenball / Fleur de Lune (Feiner Stern / Diamont)

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2017 Dark Brown Oldenburg GOV Colt

Foal of Distinction

Premium Foal Award

$17,000

This massive bay colt is a powerhouse! He is confident, bold and very self assured. He has an elastic trot showing excellent freedom through his shoulder, a good walk, and round canter. He has super flexion in his hocks, using his hind end very well with plenty of suspension. This colt is a good choice for the amateur rider or a trainer looking for an FEI prospect. He was born April 19, 2017 via embryo transfer and is shown here with his surrogate dam.

Fürstenball is a Champion Stallion, performance test winner and Bundeschampion. Fürstenball embodies the modern dressage horse with maximum lightness, submissiveness and elasticity. He was the celebrated licensing and stallion performance test winner with a sensational dressage index score of 154.98 points (9.0 or higher for a total of 16 times and a 10.0 for rideability). In 2011 he was Bundeschampion of the five-year-old horses with a top score of 9.5 for trot and overall impression, 10.0 for walk, 9.0 for canter and submissiveness, winning the championship with a score of 9.4. In 2012 he again confirmed his quality with high placings in the regional championship and Bundeschampionat as well as at the World Championships for six-year old dressage horses.

Fürstenball's sire, Fürst Heinrich, was himself Dressage World Champion and produced 48 stallions and, so far, 38 advanced (S) level dressage horses after just a short time in breeding.

Fleur de Lune is a consistent producer with any stallion, and has produced only Premium Award foals. Her foals have been by Ampere, Johnson and Fürstenball. She is by the Elite stallion Feiner Stern, who sired 18 approved stallion sons in Europe and 26 States Premium mares. He received 9’s for trot, canter, rideability, and willingness to work at his 100 day stallion test in Adelheidsdorf, Germany. He was named Main Premium Champion Stallion of Oldenburg in 1987 due to his outstanding quality, performance test scores, and convincing quality of his first foal crop. He was known for producing progeny with very good foundations, good looking with beautiful heads, and very easy to ride and handle. Fleur’s damsire is the Elite Hanoverian stallion Diamont (Durkheim x SPS Babette/Bleep xx). Diamont was a noted dressage sire and was ranked first in 1994, 1996 and 1997 by the USDF among all Hanoverian stallions for producing USDF Horse of the Year qualifiers. In 1995 he was the 7th leading producer of qualifiers among stallions of all breeds in the U.S. He produced three licensed stallions and fourteen Elite Hanoverian mares. His offspring are well noted for being successful in all the sport horse disciplines including dressage, Grand Prix show jumping and eventing.